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A bed of red flowers: in search of my Afghanistan
By Nelofer Pazira. 2005
During Nelofer's childhood, the Communists assumed power, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, and her father was imprisoned, while her adolescent years…
included a stint in the resistance. Escaping to Pakistan and then Canada with her family in 1989, she continued to correspond with her friend, Dyana. When her letters stopped coming, Nelofer traveled back to post-Taliban Afghanistan to find out what happened to her friend. Some descriptions of violence. 2005.All things consoled: a daughter's memoir
By Elizabeth Hay. 2018
Jean and Gordon Hay were a formidable pair. She was an artist and superlatively frugal; he was a proud and…
well-mannered schoolteacher with a temper that could be explosive. Elizabeth, their oldest daughter, was said to be a difficult and selfish child. Elizabeth always suspected she would end up caring for her parents in their final years, a way of making up for the sins of her childhood, proving herself to be a good daughter after all. But as her parents, who had been ferociously independent people, became increasingly dependent on her, their lives changed utterly and so did hers. Philip Roth once said, "Old age is a massacre." This book takes you inside the massacre. Bestseller. Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. 2018.Brass buttons and silver horseshoes: stories from Canada's British war brides
By Linda Granfield. 2002
This book tells the story of Canada's war brides. 48,000 young women met and married Canadian servicemen in Europe during…
World War II. Nothing could have prepared them for their experience in this new land. Some regretted their hasty love affairs and others enjoyed more than 50 years of happy marriage. 2002.The Kabul Beauty School: the art of friendship and freedom
By Deborah Rodriguez. 2014
Deborah Rodriguez arrived in Afghanistan in 2002 and opened the first beauty salon in Kabul that actually trained local women…
to become beauticians. All of these women have a story to tell, and all of them bring their stories to the Kabul Beauty School, a place of perms, friendship and freedom. 2014.Expecting Adam: a true story of birth, transformation & unconditional love
By Martha Nibley Beck. 2000
While the author and her husband were Harvard graduate students, she became pregnant with their second child and learned he…
had Down syndrome. She describes the seemingly magical events that followed and the lessons she learned despite the difficulties. After Adam was born, it was "worth it, a thousand times over." 2000.All of me: my extraordinary life
By Barbara Windsor, Robin McGibbon. 2000
Born in London just before the war, Barbara Windsor made her first stage appearance at the age of thirteen. From…
her early roles as the original "Carry on" dolly bird to her hit as Peggy Mitchell in the soap "Eastenders", her success in theatre, film and TV has made her a British icon. Here, she talks in depth about the people and events that have shaped her career.The last victim: the extraordinary life of Florence Maybrick, the wife of Jack the Ripper
By Anne E Graham. 1999
Did Florence Maybrick really poison her husband, or was she set up? Who knew about Maybrick's connection to the Ripper…
murders, and what lengths would they go to keep it quiet? Why was evidence suppressed from the trial? This text explores the life of Florence and her marriage to James Maybrick. 1999.The glass castle: a memoir
By Jeannette Walls. 2006
Reporter for MSNBC.com looks back on her unsettled life. Describes growing up in a dysfunctional family, which was always on…
the move. She recalls her father's dream of building a "glass castle," and relates how she and her siblings escaped to make lives of their own. Strong language. 2005.I'm afraid of men
By Vivek Shraya. 2018
Toxic masculinity takes many insidious forms, from misogyny and sexual harassment to homophobia, transphobia, and bullying. Vivek Shraya has firsthand…
experience with nearly all of them. As a boy, Vivek exhibited "feminine" qualities. The men in her life immediately and violently disapproved. They taught her to fear the word girl by turning it into a weapon used to hurt her. They taught her to hate her femininity, to destroy the best parts of herself. In order to survive, Vivek had to learn to convincingly perform masculinity. As a girl, she's still afraid. Having spent years undoing the damage and salvaging her lost girlhood, she is haunted by the violence of men, seldom dressing the way she wants in public. As a result she is often still perceived as male, stirring feelings of guilt and self-doubt: Am I not feminine enough? Is this my fault for striving to be the perfect man and excelling at it? I'm Afraid of Men is a culmination of the years Vivek spent observing men and creating her own version of manhood. Through deeply personal reflection, she offers a rare and multifaceted perspective on gender and a hopeful reimagining of masculinity at a time when it's needed more than ever. Bestseller. 2018.Diplomatic baggage: the adventures of a trailing spouse
By Brigid Keenan. 2006
Brigid Keenan was a glamorous, successful young London fashion journalist. But falling in love with a diplomat saw her leave…
behind the gilt chairs of the Paris salons for a large chicken shed in the forests of Nepal. Thirty years later (at the farewell party for the Papal Nuncio in Kazakhstan), Brigid found herself wondering whether her decision had been the right one. This is her hilarious account of her life as a 'trailing spouse' - an utterly engaging tale of diplomatic protocol, difficult teenagers, homesickness, frustrated career aspirations, witch doctors and giant jumping spiders. 2006.Bitch: in praise of difficult women
By Elizabeth Wurtzel. 1998
In this brilliant tract on the history of manipulative female behaviour, Wurtzel takes a sultry and provocative look at conniving…
women. From Delilah to Amy Fisher, "Bitch" tells a tale both celebratory and cautionary, cataloguing some of the most infamous women in history, past and present.The way forward is with a broken heart
By Alice Walker. 2000
This collection opens with a passionate account of Alice Walker's early marriage to a Jewish lawyer and their life in…
racist Mississippi, giving voice to idealism, lost love and hope. This is followed by tales of sisters, of family, of love for men and for women. These stories consider issues of racism and slavery, politics and sex.Crossing the line: young women and the law (Youth project)
By Carol Drinkwater. 2000
Young women talk about what led them to cross the line, and how they both coped with, and learned from,…
their experiences. The collection also includes young women who have had friends or family in jail, and what it has meant for them. 2000.Good wives?: Mary, Fanny, Jennie & me, 1845-2001
By Margaret Forster. 2001
Written with a mixture of memoir and dramatic stories, this book is an exploration into what it means to be…
a wife, looked at through the lives and marriages of four women in different eras: Mary Moffatt and her marriage to the missionary David Livingstone in Africa in 1845; the unconventional American, Fanny Osbourne, and her marriage to Robert Louis Stevenson in the late 19th century; the politician Jennie Lee and her marriage to Aneurin Bevan in the 1930s; and Forster's own marriage of forty years. 2001.Journey to myself: writings by women from prison in South Africa
By Julia Landau. 2004
"Journey to Myself" is the first book of South African women's writings from prison, and it offers powerful and dramatic…
personal stories about abuse, drugs, recovery, hope and faith. Through creative writing classes the women recovered their true identity, their healing and hope for the future. They learned how to feel again. 2004.The world at her fingertips: the story of Helen Keller (Other or No Series)
By Joan Dash. 2001
A biography of the woman who overcame her disabilities to be an inspirational public figure. Discusses the cause of Helen…
Keller's blindness and deafness, her determination to lead a useful life, and the importance of her teacher, Annie Sullivan, throughout Helen's life. Grades 5-8. 2001.Princess: a true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia
By Jean P Sasson. 1993
Although names and identifying circumstances have been changed to protect the life of "Sultana", this is the true story of…
a present-day Saudi Arabian princess. It is a harrowing tale, depicting riches beyond our wildest dreams, and the grim realities of life in a country where women have few rights, and men's sex, money, and power reign supreme. 1993.Faraway
By Lucy Irvine. 2001
Octogenarian Diana Hepworth has lived with her family on Pigeon, a tiny place in the furthest corner of the Solomon…
Islands for more than 50 years. When the former Vogue model decided to turn the fascinating events of her life into a book, she went to fellow adventurer Lucy Irvine for help. 2001.This is just my face: try not to stare
By Gabourey Sidibe. 2017
Gabourey Sidibe skyrocketed to fame in 2009 when she played the leading role in the movie Precious. With full-throttle honesty,…
Sidibe paints her Bed-Stuy/Harlem family life with a polygamous father and a gifted mother who supports her two children by singing in the subway. Sidibe tells the inspiring story of her first job as a phone sex “talker.” And she shares her unconventional (of course!) rise to fame as a movie star, alongside “a superstar cast of rich people who lived in mansions and had their own private islands and amazing careers while I lived in my mom's apartment.” 2017.Toutes celles que j'étais
By Abla Farhoud. 2015
" Abla a six ans lorsqu'elle quitte le Liban avec sa famille pour s'établir au Québec. Le français, la religion…
catholique, la neige ne lui font pas peur ; elle est farouchement déterminée à ne pas rester en marge. Mais c'est grâce au théâtre qu'elle arrive enfin à prendre racine. Jusqu'à ce que, quatorze ans après leur arrivée, son père décide qu'il est temps de repartir. Dans ce récit par petites touches, l'auteure plonge dans son passé pour aller à la rencontre de celles qu'elle fut. " -- 4e de couv.